Ain't goin' there. Nope.

Nice!

I am not a skinner, however I do use SKS 7 to change items on skins around, I usually change the look of the menu bar in IE by framing it and also changing the font colors if they are to light, I also some times change the look of progress bar. If I like a certain please wait from one skin I might import into the current skin I am using. To simplify it I mix and match items from other skins into a current skin to get a skin of my preference. I also put colour in the folders panel in explorer which most skinners neglect or the make it gray or blue which are two colors that suck as primary colors in a skin IMHO. Blue and gray are fine as accent colors in a skin the electric Blur or plastic blue can be tolerable as a primary skin colour. To bad there is not a metal flake like in car colors in skins. I usually end up modifying scroll bars and tool tip also sometimes the buttons

Heck...I remember all of those.....

Ya forgot Heavy Equipment, though ...[still a significant skin suite]...

To be honest, one of the reasons that new stuff doesn't look like the "good old stuff" is that it's all be done before - there not much 'new' to do! And I use my own WindowBlinds, so I want them to be usable - every day usable - so if I do something fancy and exciting (I did the Savannah skin which had some great animal print textures) I usually end up using it for a day (or an hour, or minute...) then just switching to something that looks cool but lets me work!

I'd hate to think that the second skin in the screenshot (Primavera) was an example of the decline of WB skins - just getting the hatching line textures on all the elements of the Primavera skin took literally hours of work. And I also hope that the clean lines and colours apeal to those with a more minimal aesthetic, as that was the intention. Spikes and glassy blobs are great! - but for me, only for a short while, and to be honest they've been done so many times before (...and yes, so have minimal stuff, I agree).

I say, each to his or her own.

Skin on!

(Treetog, MikeB, Hippy - I taught them everything I knew....  )

Both yours and Vampothicas was merely examples of "out of the box" - "inside the box"... as i said quote:

NOT saying either is better, wrong or whatever, but...Just wondering. What happened ? you do Great stuff Essorant !

Go where man?  To Honestville?  Population - 1 (hint...it's me.)

There's only a couple people on here that I have a problem with, and you aren't one of them. 

I have updated several of the "classics" for my own personal use and actually did seek permission to upload one of them years ago. The original artist was kind enough in his refusal, but it has deterred me from repeating the process only to be shot down.

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Snowy, I really doubt I would have the skills and/or the patience nowadays to bring that one to Vista/7. Converting WBs to XP has been difficult for me already.


Id deffinatley want to help you too Carl, me and snowy working together again..*sigh*

Essorant, ive always loved your stuff, I still remember seeing your work advertised and thinking 'oh man to be like this guy...."

your one of my many idols....Renato is another,

I agree with Carl, id love to see the old stuff updated, it would be so awsome

xx

Personally I like the more minimalist, clean, ultra-usable skins. They don't have to be boring to be usable. vstyler's stuff is very usable and certainly anything but boring. Same with essorant. I'll pass on the big and gaudy "look at me!" showstoppers. Like ID said, they're more novelty than anything.

Isn't more than a handful a waste?     

Second that